Sony Vaio VGCRA830 Owner's Manual page 99

Before getting started

Back up your computer's data to external media. Creating, altering, or configuring for RAID deletes all data from
affected hard disk drives.

Create a VAIO Recovery Media Kit, so that you can configure the RAID volumes, and perform a hard disk drive
recovery.
For more information about creating recovery media using the VAIO Recovery Wizard utility program:
1.
Click Start from the Windows
2.
From the VAIO Help and Support Center, click VAIO Recovery Options.

Verify the status of the existing hard disk drive(s) before creating or changing the RAID volume. Use the Intel
Storage Utility software program to check drive. See the section,
The VAIO Recovery Wizard utility program can configure the first two hard disk drives into a RAID-0 (striped) or RAID-1
(mirrored) volume. (Hard disk drives are installed in port-0 and port-1). Use the Intel
of the Intel Storage Utility software program, to configure any additional drives. See the section,
Utility program.
taskbar, and then click Help and Support.
®
About the Intel Storage Utility
Application Accelerator (IAA) feature
®
®
program.
About the Intel Storage
Page 99